.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 219 159
Rank change year-on-year -108 -60 -44
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 316 733 988
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 1.22% 2.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.92% 5.98% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 289 511 912
10th Percentile £41,450 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £81,750 £71,250 £76,563
90th Percentile £108,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,423 12,266 12,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.97% 20.41% 26.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,764 7,328 10,220
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,938 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +2.27%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,420 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,550 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 19 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +15 135 £80,000 +12.28% 137
North of England -38 71 £55,000 - 103
North West -15 44 £55,000 -4.35% 64
South East -78 42 £55,000 - 86
South West +19 27 £50,000 -20.00% 24
Midlands -32 23 £65,000 +43.65% 45
Yorkshire -35 20 £40,000 -20.00% 30
East of England -15 13 £60,000 +20.00% 29
East Midlands -24 12 £67,500 +42.11% 23
West Midlands +3 11 £60,000 +33.33% 21
North East -10 7 £60,000 +37.14% 9
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 15 (4.75%) IIS
2 10 (3.16%) CMS
3 7 (2.22%) Confluence
3 7 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.58%) Umbraco
5 4 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (0.95%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.32%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.32%) Magento
1 1 (0.32%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 220 (69.62%) Azure
2 95 (30.06%) AWS
3 49 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (11.39%) Serverless
5 33 (10.44%) GitHub
6 21 (6.65%) Azure Functions
7 20 (6.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 20 (6.33%) Power Platform
8 17 (5.38%) SaaS
9 15 (4.75%) GCP
10 13 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (3.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 12 (3.80%) Power Automate
12 11 (3.48%) Azure App Service
13 10 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (3.16%) Azure AKS
14 9 (2.85%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (2.53%) PowerApps
16 6 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (1.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.90%) Internet
2 2 (0.63%) HTTP
2 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (35.13%) SQL Server
2 57 (18.04%) MongoDB
3 50 (15.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (8.86%) NoSQL
5 26 (8.23%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (4.43%) Relational Database
8 13 (4.11%) MySQL
9 11 (3.48%) Power BI
10 10 (3.16%) DynamoDB
11 9 (2.85%) Redis
12 8 (2.53%) NonStop SQL
13 7 (2.22%) Data Hub
13 7 (2.22%) SQL CLR
13 7 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (1.27%) MariaDB
16 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
16 1 (0.32%) Event Store
16 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 56 (17.72%) Git
2 19 (6.01%) JIRA
3 12 (3.80%) Visual Studio
4 10 (3.16%) Octopus Deploy
5 9 (2.85%) GitLab
6 8 (2.53%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.58%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.58%) Jenkins
8 5 (1.58%) NUnit
8 5 (1.58%) Postman
9 4 (1.27%) MSTest
9 4 (1.27%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.27%) Vite
10 3 (0.95%) JMeter
10 3 (0.95%) Selenium
11 2 (0.63%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.32%) CA Release Automation
12 1 (0.32%) Sourcetree
General
1 51 (16.14%) Finance
2 47 (14.87%) Social Skills
3 18 (5.70%) Law
4 17 (5.38%) Retail
5 14 (4.43%) Back Office
5 14 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.48%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.16%) Advertising
7 10 (3.16%) Legal
8 7 (2.22%) Banking
8 7 (2.22%) Front Office
9 5 (1.58%) Automotive
10 4 (1.27%) Marketing
11 3 (0.95%) Games
11 3 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.95%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.32%) Electronics
13 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 223 (70.57%) Developer
2 120 (37.97%) .NET Developer
3 60 (18.99%) Senior
4 47 (14.87%) C# Developer
5 46 (14.56%) Software Developer
6 45 (14.24%) Full-Stack Developer
7 40 (12.66%) Senior Developer
8 34 (10.76%) Software Engineer
9 29 (9.18%) Lead
10 24 (7.59%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 20 (6.33%) .NET Software Engineer
12 18 (5.70%) Senior C# Developer
13 17 (5.38%) Lead Developer
13 17 (5.38%) Senior .NET Developer
14 16 (5.06%) React Developer
15 15 (4.75%) C# .NET Developer
16 13 (4.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 12 (3.80%) C# Software Developer
18 10 (3.16%) Azure Developer
18 10 (3.16%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (100.00%) .NET
2 117 (37.03%) ASP.NET
3 107 (33.86%) React
4 106 (33.54%) AngularJS
5 98 (31.01%) .NET Framework
6 84 (26.58%) HTML
7 78 (24.68%) Entity Framework
8 76 (24.05%) RESTful
9 72 (22.78%) CSS
10 60 (18.99%) ASP.NET MVC
11 59 (18.67%) ASP.NET Web API
12 47 (14.87%) Vue
13 42 (13.29%) HTML5
14 38 (12.03%) Node.js
15 36 (11.39%) Blazor
16 28 (8.86%) ASP.NET Core
17 26 (8.23%) REST
18 23 (7.28%) CSS3
19 20 (6.33%) LINQ
20 14 (4.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.66%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (4.11%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 7 (2.22%) Digital TV
7 7 (2.22%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.90%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.58%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.58%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.95%) Derivative
10 3 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.63%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.63%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.63%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.85%) Windows
2 8 (2.53%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (49.68%) Agile
2 141 (44.62%) Full-Stack Development
3 123 (38.92%) Microservices
4 116 (36.71%) CI/CD
5 96 (30.38%) DevOps
6 86 (27.22%) Software Engineering
7 82 (25.95%) MVC
8 61 (19.30%) Clean Code
9 52 (16.46%) Scrum
10 51 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (16.14%) TDD
11 49 (15.51%) Containerisation
12 48 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (11.71%) Mentoring
14 35 (11.08%) SDLC
15 31 (9.81%) BDD
16 29 (9.18%) Kanban
16 29 (9.18%) Unit Testing
17 28 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
18 27 (8.54%) AI
Programming Languages
1 284 (89.87%) C#
2 134 (42.41%) JavaScript
3 127 (40.19%) SQL
4 75 (23.73%) TypeScript
5 35 (11.08%) Python
6 13 (4.11%) Rust
7 8 (2.53%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.90%) Go
8 6 (1.90%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.58%) Java
10 4 (1.27%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.95%) Erlang
11 3 (0.95%) PHP
12 2 (0.63%) Bicep
12 2 (0.63%) XAML
13 1 (0.32%) C++
Qualifications
1 40 (12.66%) Degree
2 19 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.53%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.22%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.90%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.38%) QA
2 12 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.22%) WCAG
4 4 (1.27%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 74 (23.42%) Docker
2 7 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (13.61%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.23%) Terraform
3 2 (0.63%) Ansible
3 2 (0.63%) Grafana
Vendors
1 113 (35.76%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.22%) Facebook
2 7 (2.22%) VMware
2 7 (2.22%) YouTube
3 4 (1.27%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.27%) Google
4 3 (0.95%) Databricks
4 3 (0.95%) Oracle
5 2 (0.63%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.63%) New Relic
5 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.32%) IBM
6 1 (0.32%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.32%) IONA
6 1 (0.32%) Okta
6 1 (0.32%) SAP
6 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow